Thread: Please help Turks and Caicos!!!!!!!!!!!

Location: St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles Pleas for help from stormcarib.com
1. For people who want to help out the hard hit Turks and Caicos, there is a drop-off site for donations:

Miami/Ft. Lauderdale Area
Just Posh Hair Salon
6447 Pembroke Road
Hollywood, FL 33023
(786) 318-6978
Ask for Jackie or Kim


Collecting: NON PERISHABLES & BUILDING SUPPLIES/MATERIALSItems will be shipped via G & G as charity donations, they are working along with Minister McAllister Hanchell & Charles for WIV4.
2.Another way to donate:

To donate to the British Red Cross Hurricane Appeal go to http://www.redcross.org.uk/hurricaneappeal or call 08450 53 53 53. Postal donations made payable to British Red Cross Hurricane Appeal can be sent to British Red Cross, 44 Moorfields, London EC2Y 9AA For interviews with Red Cross personnel in Haiti, Turks and Caicos or UK, or for further information please call Penny Sims or Mark South on 020 7877 7044 or 020 7877 7042, or out of hours call 07659 145 095.



3.RELIEF AID-ADDRESS INFO FOR SALT CAY*******
Posted by: Donna Shope
Date: September 08, 2008 12:12PM


If anyone would like to send supplies for the MUCH NEEDED relief effort for Salt Cay, please send them to the following address, also, be sure you mark on it that it is for Salt Cay. And let me thank all of you who have sent prayers, best wishes, and offers of assistance..everyone from Salt Cay is so very appreciative.

And we will be good as new soon, I am positive of it!!!

Shipping info:

BML Shipping
C/O Jose Diaz
7185 NW 87th
Miami, Forida
33178

Some of the things we need are listed below:

bottled H2O
heavy duty work gloves
face masks
non perishable food items
roofing materials (galvanized nails, paper, ondura)
tarps
plastic trash containers or plastic boxes with lids
mosquito spray
mosquito nets
Lumber (treated, 2x4's, 2x6's, 2x10's, plywood)
diesel generators

personal hygiene products for the workers such as baby wipes, hand sanitizers, etc.

Please remember if you buy us building materials, we are in a tropical environment, rust is a big problem & if lumber is not treated, the termites get is as soon as they find it. We also have a bank account set up for relief funds..I will post the mailing address later today for those of you that would prefer to send money.
We also have a bank account set up for relief funds..If you would prefer to make a monetary donation please send to:

Friends of Salt Cay
C/O D R Opper
5410 McAlpine Farm Road
Charlotte, NC
28226

OR you may send payment via paypal at http://www.saltcay.org

Again,
Thank you all so much!!!

That island has really been hit hard! Thanks for posting this, Sue.

I understand that the pier for the cruise is still there -- but everything right at the pier was destroyed.